Snow in October

Just to spite us, it snowed all day yesterday and through the night.  Most of it disappeared on contact with the still warm ground, but this morning there's a carpet of fine dusty powder. 

It'll melt.  But we still have 8 cords or so to bring in the house and not many hours to do it.

In any event, we're scramblin like squirrels to build a nest for the winter, and while some pieces, like the wood, are going slowly, others have beens atisfactorily simple, like installing sliding glass doors that don't leak and actually lock, taking the mental and then physical leap of cutting off our greenhouse for the winter, saving us heat and propane, and in general modernizing our old, leaky, quaint, New England brick farm house.

In the back of our minds, we're hoping if we tighten up the house enough we won't need to bring in the rest of the wood.  On the other hand, if it's already snowing in the middle of October, maybe we'd better buckle down for a cold, long winter.  We're not squirrels and can't predict the weather.